Managing Information Processing Needs in Global Supply Chains: A Prerequisite to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 87-113

  Busse, Christian ^a   Meinlschmidt, Jan ^b   Foerstl, Kai ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Volkswagen AG   (Switzerland)

^c German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

information processing theory; sustainable business model; sustainable supply chain management; true sustainability; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998854328     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12129     Document Type: Article

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